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SUMMARY:Harbour Exchange: Closing Sharing by artists-in-residence Vvzela Kook and Shiraz Bayjoo
DESCRIPTION:Highlights includes showcase\, talks\, and guided tour. Free admission and all are welcome\, register here!\n \nAs the two artists conclude their residencies in London and Hong Kong respectively\, we invite you to this special evening with the artists exploring the works and ideas developed during the two-month exchange.  \n‘Recently my research has focused on animal imperialism and architecture of violence. I spent a lot of time in the museums\, zoos\, and prison museums.’ — Vvzela Kook \n‘Thinking through some of the extractive methodologies of this time as well as how this follows the same trajectory out of the movements and displacement of people throughout the empire.’ — Shiraz Bayjoo \nDrawing on their existing works and materials gathered during their residencies\, Kook and Bayjoo will engage in a dialogue about how their ecological research into colonial circulation intersects across multiple geographies\, and how these connect to their own family and cultural experiences.\n \nSupported by the Cheng-Lan Foundation in collaboration with Delfina Foundation. \n
URL:https://www.para-site.art/programme/harbour-exchange-closing-sharing-by-artists-in-residence-vvzela-kook-and-shiraz-bayjoo/
LOCATION:Para Site\, 22/F\, Wing Wah Industrial Building
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SUMMARY:Tong Wenmin ‘Towards Solace’ Movement Workshop
DESCRIPTION:As an extension of the performance ‘Towards Solace’\, this movement workshop invites you to join artist Tong Wenmin in exploring bodily awareness – examining the connection between an individual’s spirit\, emotions\, and movements. \nFocusing on simple gestures\, the workshop uses a series of physical exercises that guide participants to discover patterns within ordinary movement and transform them into ritual-like expressions with particular aesthetic qualitities. Through this workshop\, you can deepen  awareness of your own physical and bodily experience. \nOpen to all — no prior experience required. Register here!\n \n\nThings to note: \n\nDuration: The workshop will last 1.5–2 hours\, conducted in Mandarin.\nWhat to Wear: Please wear comfortable activewear and sport shoes suitable for movement.\nExperience Level: No prior dance background or experience is required.\nPhysical Contact: The workshop may involve a certain degree of physical contact with others.\nGroup Size: Participation is limited to a maximum of 10 individuals.\n\n\n
URL:https://www.para-site.art/programme/tong-wenmin-towards-solace-movement-workshop/
LOCATION:Kennedy Town\, Hong Kong
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260919T150000
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SUMMARY:Tong Wenmin 'Towards Solace'
DESCRIPTION:Sat 19 Sep 2026 \n\n3pm: Performance (session 1)\n*The 3pm session is currently full. If you would like to join the waitlist\, please email info@para-site.art with your name\, email address\, and phone number. We will be in touch if a slot becomes available. Thank you!\n4pm: Post-performance Artist Sharing\n8pm: Performance (session 2)\n9pm: Post-performance Artist Sharing\n\nLimited seats for each session\, register here! \nIn Tong Wenmin’s performances each encounter between the body and the natural world creates a portal. Sometimes it resets the senses\, opening up new ways of perceiving. Sometimes\, it recalls forgotten dreams or memories. Sometimes\, it offers a glimpse of another life. Towards Solace invites you to join this journey as a companion\, sharing a collective act of wandering. The performance takes shape as it unfolds\, gradually attuning our senses to primal living forces. We do not move through the portal to escape from constructed realities\, but to return to ourselves within it together. \nBased in Chongqing\, a ‘mountain city’ not dissimilar to Hong Kong\, Tong has long examined the entanglement of nature and what is man-made. High-rises built along steep hillsides\, interlocking structures and passageways\, and overlapping hybrid materials disorient and shape the inhabitants who navigate them. Grinding density and restless pace of metropolitan life\, attributing to the chaotic drifting states of inner unrest in modern living\, serve as the point of departure for Towards Solace. Here\, the body becomes a medium of channeling the planetary into inner worlds\, carving out a time and place that runs parallel to the city. \nThe work can be seen as an allegory\, a ritual of seeking\, with each person unfolds their own. Mist and a scaffold\, creeping with plant life\, encapsulate an imagined landscape. Individuals gather here in solitude; utterances drawn from deep within release signals to one another. As they awaken\, reaching their anchors and voicing in unison\, their bodies merge with one another and with the structure that holds them—a shrine of reconciliation\, interconnectedness\, and searching. The end of the performance does not represent an end to the ritual; it is an invitation to ripple onwards. Solace\, then\, is perhaps not the destination\, but the process of living through the search itself. \n
URL:https://www.para-site.art/programme/tong-wenmin-towards-solace/
LOCATION:The Room\, Freespace\, WestK\, Kowloon\, Hong Kong
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SUMMARY:Elsewhere in Me
DESCRIPTION:As part of Para Site’s thirtieth-anniversary celebrations\, Elsewhere in Me presents four newly commissioned performances across Hong Kong. Inspired by the organisation’s evolving identities and generations of artists who have navigated the shifting local landscape since 1996\, the series explores what can emerge from the act of finding one’s way. Unfolding episodically over the next six months\, four artists—Yim Sui Fong\, River Lin\, Tong Wenmin\, and Justin Talplacido Shoulder (Phasmahammer)—traverse diverse locations\, seek out spaces between thresholds\, and make room for unexpected encounters. Here\, art becomes a continuous negotiation with the city and those who live it. \nElsewhere in Me centres this group of artists as active wayfinders\, reinhabiting and reimagining our urban condition through their multi‑faceted practices. \n\nYim Sui Fong (b. 1983\, Guangdong\, Hong Kong-based) revisits the site and soundscape where Para Site was founded\, transforming personal narratives and expressive impulses into sound. Through the act of listening\, the project probes collective formation arising between solitude\, difference\, and mediation\, turning shared voices into resonant frequencies.\n‎\n\nRiver Lin (b. 1984\, Taipei\, Paris/Tokyo/Tapei-based) maps a week-long diary of encounters across the city’s terrain\, merging private and public realms. These interventions offer juxtapositions within everyday settings\, prompting us to pause and reflect on meanings encoded in shared space.\n‎ \nTong Wenmin (b. 1989\, Chongqing-based) gathers earth and botanical traces from the cityscape\, animating them through the body to assemble a collective ritual. Her sensorial choreography of voice and movement contemplates how natural elements and individuals are entangled within systems of construction.\n‎\n\nJustin Talpalcido Shoulder (Phasmahammer\, b. 1985\, Sydney\, Monkerai-based) pays tribute to local water deities through a queer lens\, incubating a hybrid\, mythic creature. By channeling animist perspectives\, their performance attunes us to hidden organisms and living networks.\n\nThe sites of these explorations are portals for embodying new ways of moving\, connecting\, and finding meaning between ourselves and our surroundings. In today’s world of detours and crossroads\, the artists propose possibilities for finding a sense of place. Weaving together sound\, movement\, ritual\, the everyday\, and the more-than-human\, the programme’s impermanence offers lenses that aim to anchor us in spaces of shared belonging. Elsewhere in Me is not to be found elsewhere; it is present here in our common ground. \nFree and open to all. More dates and locations to be announced via Para Site’s website and social media. \nThis programme is curated by Celia Ho and Jessie Kwok. \n  \n
URL:https://www.para-site.art/programme/elsewhere-in-me-four-new-performances-across-hong-kong/
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SUMMARY:Para Site turns 30! Announcing our 2026 programmes\, a year-long celebration of contemporary art in Hong Kong and beyond.
DESCRIPTION:Para Site: 30 Years\n“The dominant group will have a well-planned strategy to guard its field. Instead of using a complete and overall strategy\, the Para-site takes calculated actions of tactics only at [a] certain time and [a] certain place.” — Warren Leung Chi Wo\, “Para/Site 1996” \nFor three decades\, Para Site has operated within the ever-evolving artistic ecosystems of the broader Asia-Pacific. Established in 1996 by seven Hong Kong artists—Lisa Cheung\, Patrick Lee\, Leung Chi-wo\, Leung Mee-ping\, Tsang Tak-ping\, Phoebe Man Ching-ying\, and Sara Wong Chi-hang— Para Site was founded as an artist-run space\, eventually developing into one of Hong Kong’s most enduring contemporary art institutions dedicated to contemporary visual art. Today\, Para Site remains committed to its mission of championing original developments in contemporary art. Collaborating closely with practitioners from both local and international contexts\, Para Site enables new works\, initiatives\, and ideas to come into being by producing benchmark exhibitions\, commissioning transformative projects\, and cultivating new talent. \nEngendering a spirit of reflexivity\, responsiveness\, and flexibility\, Para Site as a non-profit has continuously adapted its organisational structure to meet the evolving needs of both itself and the artistic community. It has remained relevant by constantly reinventing itself: first as an artist-run space\, and later as a curator-run organisation. The thirtieth anniversary poses an opportune chance for Para Site to explore new exhibition formats\, partnerships\, and thematic programming that simultaneously honour its legacy as an independent alternative art space\, whilst collectively thinking through emergent themes in contemporary art today. \nSince 1996\, Para Site has mounted over 300 exhibitions locally and globally\, hosted over 80 international residents\, and delivered over 1\,000 public programmes. Its programmes remain free and accessible to the public. \n  \nPara Site Programmes in 2026\nEnvisioned as a year-long series of exhibitions\, performances\, public programmes\, and residencies\, ‘Para Site: 30 Years’ takes its cue from the first operational logic to be manifested within its space. In its initial\, experimental space in Kennedy Town\, Para Site mounted exhibitions by pairing artists whose works responded to each other. In the same vein\, the year’s programme is a series of bookends: by continuously inviting artists to respond to each other\, organisations to interact\, and past histories and futures to come into conversation\, the programme seeks to uncover the possibilities that emerge when disparate spirits and ideas are brought together. \n  \nSite-seeing\nOnsite exhibition\nMarch–June 2026\n‘Site-seeing’ takes its point of departure from an exhibition of the same name presented in 1996\, the first year of the institution’s operation. While the original exhibition explored questions of urban space\, memory and art-making\, this iteration explores how these concerns have evolved as we navigate today’s cities. Through commissioned and recent works\, ‘Site-seeing’ features a generation of artists born between the 1970s and 1990s. Their works collectively address the complexities of near-constant redevelopment that define much of contemporary urban life. By placing Hong Kong in dialogue with neighboring and distant cities\, the works probe into the myriad of public and private interests that drive urban change\, staging the city as a space shaped by regulation\, control and alienation. Yet\, many of the works attend to the moments of wonder\, humor\, and meaning that persist within the cracks of the built environment. Across these shifting environments\, memory\, desire and anxiety circulate and gather through what is built\, erased and remade. \nThis exhibition is organised by Junni Chen and Yuanyu Li. \nArtists: Tolia Astakhishvili (b. 1974\, Tbilisi)\, Heman Chong (b. 1977\, Muar)\, Covey Gong (b. 1994\, Changsha)\, Ko Sin Tung (b. 1987\, Hong Kong)\, Nawin Nuthong (b. 1993\, Bangkok); Anna Sew Hoy (b. 1976\, Auckland); Bo Wang & Lu Pan (duo\, based between Amsterdam and Hong Kong); Tianyi Zheng (b. 1995\, Wuhan); Stella Zhong (b. 1993\, Shenzhen) \n  \n\nElsewhere in Me\nOff-site live programmes\nJune–December 2026\n‘Elsewhere in Me’ is a series of off‑site live programmes that explore wayfinding through performances and interventions. Inspired by the multiple relocations and the lineage of artists who have presented works in public spaces throughout Para Site’s chronicle\, the series also signals the institution’s continuous adaptation. Participating creators will articulate notions of mobility\, liminality and relationality within the contexts of urban history\, cultural heritage and the more‑than‑human realm\, sharing a motive for finding footing in today’s world of detours and crossroads. In keeping with Para Site’s experimental ethos\, the series unfolds across various venues in Hong Kong\, welcoming diverse audiences. \nThis programme is organised by Celia Ho and Jessie Kwok. \n  \n\nInternational Conference + Workshops for Arts Professionals\nAugust 2026\nThe 2026 International Conference and Workshops for Arts Professionals explore the relationship between art and technology today. As digital influence grows\, the programme examines how technology shapes our lives\, our ideas\, and the way we live together. \nReturning for the first time since 2019\, the International Conference brings together artists\, researchers\, and academics to analyse the current state of our technological world. The sessions focus on understanding how and why rapid tech developments have changed the art landscape\, exploring the impact of these changes and how to critically engage with the digital infrastructures that now surround us. \nOver seven days of intensive exchange\, this year’s workshop series invites arts professionals from around the world to focus on the underlying systems that dictate how art is produced\, managed\, and accessed in a tech-driven world. Through a mix of lectures\, workshops\, and site visits\, participants will explore new ways of working together and tackling the most urgent technical and ethical issues facing our industry today. \n  \n\nInternational Residency Programmes\nJuly-September 2026\nCheng-Lan Foundation\, Delfina Foundation and Para Site are joining forces to pilot the ‘Harbour Exchange Fellowship Programme’\, a new residency exchange programme providing opportunities for UK-based and Hong Kong-based arts professionals. In this unprecedented collaboration structure\, the programme will offer nominated two arts professionals—one from Hong Kong\, and the other from the United Kingdom— the opportunity to undertake two-month residencies hosted by Delfina and Para Site in London and Hong Kong respectively. Supported by Cheng-Lan Foundation\, this residency programme is designed to cultivate long-term critical dialogues and artistic exchange between the two art communities\, opening up new opportunities for future shared projects. \n  \n\nSeptember–November 2026\nTriangle Network and Para Site announce a new residency partnership for emerging Hong Kong-based artists. With Triangle Network’s global network of over twenty residency-hosting institutions\, Para Site will award one Hong Kong-based artist per year the opportunity to live and work for an extended period at a selected Triangle Network partner organisation. The inaugural residency will take place in collaboration with HANGAR\, Lisbon. Also an artist-founded organisation that hosts exhibitions and residencies\, HANGAR is an independent space managed by artists and curators. It is a place for experimentation\, research\, and reflection artistic practices. \n\nMedia Partner\n \n
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